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Top 10 Posts for July 2014

Crime and punishment could be the title of this post, though each word relates to a different event.

Cosplayer assault was a deadly serious concern at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, with parents asking the public for help in learning what happened to their hospitalized daughter, and police arresting a suspect the same day.

Unresolved charges of harassment against Jim Frenkel from last year’s WisCon proved to be a time bomb. Frenkel returned this year and in the aftermath the committee announced a ban, but under terms that provoked an uproar about the decision making process.

There was barely room to squeeze in lighter material, such as the July 4 story about three fans who skipped the last day of the first Worldcon and ended up seeing Lou Gehrig make his retirement speech.